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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27
THE MARTINSBURG HERALD, SA

Storms and drouths in the West
have done much damage to farm
productions bay SSO,OOO,OOO corn
cop 1920, OOO, OOO,-sn dairy inter.
ests, meats, wheat, tobacco, &C., the
loss will reach s26O,OO0,OO0. This
will be severly felt by the farmers,
and win effect business In general
through the sections where the loss
es are the heaviest.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27
44eut Advertisements.
FIDUCIARY NOTICE.

A List of the Fiduciaries whose ac-
counts are before the undersigned Com
missioner of Accounts of the County
Court of Berkeley County for settlement
r. l.. Thomas, administrator, with
will annexed, Peter Hess, decd.
James D. Jack. administrator, VIII
liam Jack, decd.
Given under my hand as Commissioners
of said Court. at my Office at the Court
House of said County, the 20, day OF
August, 1887.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27

The Coroner's jury investigating
the Chatsworth wreck has returned
a verdict holding Timothy Cough
lin, foreman on the section OH which
the accident occurred, for the grand
jury. The management of the PEG,
ria, Toledo and Western road is not
even censured for running a train
entirely two heavy, for its lax sys
tenn of track inspection or for any.
thing else. No wonder corporations
like this are careless.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27

Five men, who had been arrested
for plundering a sleeping car on the
Baltimore and Ohio train, of the
satchels belonging to passengers, es.
capped from the jail at Grafton, W.
Va, on Friday night. They over.
powered the iailer while being lock.
ed up and made their way through
the window of the office.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27

The railroad rioting(9) has all
cooled down, and Morgantown has
again crossed her legs, bumped up
her back, put on her studying cap,
and resumed her set-still attitude
MorqaatomN Post.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27

1t has been discovered that Demo
cratic state officials cleaned out the
Indiana Treasury by wrongful pay
ments of interest.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27
whales Not Fishes,

Whales are not fishes They have nc
scales; they have warm blood; they give
milk to their young. and finally, they
would be drowned if they were to remain
longer than half an hour under water.
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JOHN II. RELY, Editor.
SATURDAY, AUG. 9th, 1887.

THE HERALD has the largest bona
Rds circulation Of amy paper published
Ana the eastern end OF this State, and q
town circulation equal to that of the
other two papers combined. Printed
lists always open to the public.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27

The first country to issue stamps for
cheap postage was Great Britain-in
1910. An unused one Is worth $500.
The iarest postage stamp known to col
lectors was issued by the postmaster at
Brattleboro in 1e4G.
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THE STATE OF WEST VA

At Rules held in the Clerk office of
Circuit Court of Berkeley County, the
fat dav of August 1897
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27
A TRACT OF LAM
Special Commissioners Sale
VALUABLE FARM
CONVENIENT TO MARrrssBuRe. W. VA.

By virtue of a decree rendered by the Circuit
Court of Berkeley County, w. Va, on the 9Th
day of May. 1887 in the chancery cause therein
pending, Of George Sencindiver &C., vs. l.. NJ.
Sencindiver, &c.. the undersigned special COM
missioners will offer at public sale, in front OF
the door of the Court House. in Martinsburg.
w. Va,
ON TUESDAY, SEPT. IS. 1887.
AT O'CLOCK, PM,
that splendid farm Of which Michael sencin.
diver died seized, lying on Middle Creek, in
said county of Berkeley, with good improve
ments thereon. containing
200 Acres, More or Less.
There is a large quantity Of first class walnut
and other timber upon this land. This pro-
pertY Is convenient to market, churches
schools, and the land itself Ia of excellent
quality. A right of way to, and the use of the
the owner of what was formerly part of the
original Sencindiver tract, and lying east of
Middle Creek. Any Information regarding
said tract of land can be obtained from either
of the undersigned commissioners.
TERMS OF SALE.-One third cash. one
third on credit of twelve months, and the
residue on q credit of two years from the day
OF sale. the credit installments to bear interest
from the day of sale, taking from the pur-
chaser his bonds for the deferred payments
order of the court. Z. BOYD FAULKNER,
r. ". STEWART,
.s ~ q. l.. SENCINDIVER,
ss ti J@ Special Commissioners.
hereby certify that E. Boyd Faulkner, one
or the Special Commissioners in the above en-
titled cause has executed bond with sufficient
security, as required by law.
S. III. MARTIN. Clerk.
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In Chancery.

The object of the above suit is to settle
the account of Robert Lamon as Ad-
ministrator of Ellen O'Connell, and
there not being sufficient personal
assets for the liquidation of the dece-
dents debts, to subject the real estate
of which she died seized, to the pay
ment of the same and it appearing on
affidavit filed in this suit, that the said
defendants, Ellen O'Connell, Thomas
Prior, Mary Kelley, Daniel O'Connell
and Michael ONConnell. are non-resi-
dents of this State, they are hereby
from the 9th day of August, 1887, 1.-THE
date of the first publication hereof, J
and do what is necessary to protect
their interests in this matter.
s. II. MARTIN, Clerk.
FLICK & WEsTENHAvER, Att'ys for Pitts.
August 9th, 1887.
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Robert Lamon, Sheriff,
of Berkeley County, w.
Va, and as such Com
mittee, Administrator of
Ellen O'Connell. decd,
Ellen O'Connell, Mary
Kelly, Catharine Com
miskey, Thomas Prior,
Thomas Kelly, j. w. Nc
Sherry,Daniel O'Connell
and Michael O'Connell,
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The Portland daily press., 1887-04-13

see before many months good many manu-.
featuring establishments shutting down
their works. Anybody can see that cotton
or WOODEN mill in the interior of Maine, hum
dreds OF miles from the market for its prod
ucts, is at great disadvantage in COMPETE
ton with mill in Connecticut, situated with
in few miles of its market, unless il can
get some discount on its rates of transpOrta-
ton. If the Maine mi II has to pay the same
rate per mile as the Connecticut mill, other
things being equal, that fact of itself will
eventually make its business too unprofta-
bic to justify its continuance.
The Interstate commerce law was I'M
doubtedly passed in obedience to popular
demand. There was strong feeling of hos
tility against the railroads-and not alto
gether an unreasonable one which demand
| ed some stringent measure for their regula-
ton. That the measure has turned out to
| be crude affair is not strange. 1t could
not well have been otherwise The problem
which Congress attempted to solve was too gil
| gantic an one for one man or one set of men,
no matter how able or honest. What Congress
undertook to do was practically to rearrange
| the whole commercial and manufacturing
business of sixty millions of people. That
it should fail to do it satisfactorily was in
evitable. Luckily, however, it had the
good sense not to make the law memorable.
Had it done that the business of the conn
try would have already been thrown into in
extricable confusion. But the fact that "a
commission is clothed with authority to
soften and ameiorate its provisions and sus-
pend them entirely if necessary bids fair to
help the country out somewhat until Con-
gress again meets, when it is pretty safe to
predict that some very essential modifica-
tions will be made in the present law if it is
not wiped out altogether.
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-13

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Chang Yen Hoon, Chinese minister to this
country, will sailwith ha.f his suite for
Spain on the 18th of this month He will
present his credentials at the court of Mad
rid.and return to Washington next fall A
year from now he will go to Peru, to which
country he is also automatically accredited.
Miss Catherine l.. Wolfe, beside the be-
quest of her paintings and 100000 endow-
ment to the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
left $350,000 as an endowment to Grace
Church. and S260,OO0 more in various chart
ties. Her city home on Madison square goes
to her cousin, David Wolfe Bishop, and her
Newport villa to another cousin, Louis l.,
Lorrillard.
The gossip in London is that Lord Ran
dolph Churchill and his wife, formerly Miss
Jerome of Now York, are estranged by the
attention which Prince Edward has been
paying her. The young Prince, called ''col-
| lars and cuffs by the Radical papers, is eld-
| est son of the Prince of Wales. His grand
| mother. the queen, has lectured him and sent
! him of to Malta.
The railroads are footing up their gains by
the abolition of free passes under the inter
State commerce bill. 1t is estimated that
the Pennsylvania road will be 100000 better
off yearly by Withholding passes, and the
source of 100000. 1t is said that there are
Western roads on which at certain seasons
one half of the passengers have been dead
heads.
Mrs. Clara E. Howe has been elected to the
school committee in Gardiner. Mass, by the
largest vote ever cast for school committee
in that town. She had served for two years
and half, and discharged the duties so ac
ceptably that there was general wish to re-
elect her for a full term of three years. Even
| boys went to the town meetin and asked for
ballots bearing her name, that they might
distribute them at the polls.
| An amusing incident occurred on the day
| of the primary meeting for nomination of a
mayor at Topeka, Kansas. A young man,
| whose wife was too young to vote, declared
that he would spoil the vote of the first
woman he saw at the polls by voting the 9TH
er ticket. He was ''Metsker" man. A la
dy friend of the young man and an opponent
OF Metsker, being told what he had said,
stepped up to the window with her (BeaD
| ballot doubled, and said to him, "What have
| you against Metsker? What's to hinder him
| from making good mayor, I'd like to
know~ At the same time she dropped in
| her (BeaD ballot Quick as a flash in went
| his (BeaD ballot to offset, as he supposed,
| her vote for Metsker. Too late he realized
that he had been sold, and by woman voter.
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-13
TO-DAY VII PROPOSE

To lay before our customers
some of the best bargains It
has ever been our good for-
tune to secure.
We have just returned from
the great Auction sale OF
White Goods in New York,
where we purchased large
quantities at SO cents on a
dollar from former prices.
These and many other goods
we now offer at lower prices
than ever before made on
same grades.
Is pcs. Victoria Lawns &c yd
Is " Victoria Lawns
Zoe yd
rs /" Victoria Lawns
IL I-2c yd
100" Victoria Lawns
at Is, 20, rs and soc yd
SO pcs. plaid Nainsook I3c yd
Plain Swiss and Spot Mulls
in all grades.
Corded Piqua, India Linens,
Lace Checks, Brocade
Stripes, Banner Welts, &c.
All of above goods are very
much under price.
one case of 40 pcs. Cream
Lace Curtain Scrim at the
unparalleled price of &C
yard.
One case CoIored Madras
Scrim, 40 in. wide, former
price 20 cents, at only
IL I-2c yd.
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-13

Augusta is a good deal agitated over the
question as to whe Their a liq1or agency should
be established there or the people should
stand the chances of not getting liquor at all
whenitwas needed, or getting it only through
violation Of law by druggist or other
dealer. The argument for the agencyis that
liquor is sometimes necessary for mechan-
ical and medicinal purposes, and that there
fore an agency should be established where
people can get it without violation Of law
The argument against it is that it will soon
degenerate into an ordinary rum shop, and
that eventually more lives will be ruined
than saved by it. Mayor Macomber, who
seems to be opposed to an agency, put the
case in this fashion: Three persons might
die, without an agency, for the want of
liquor, while with 1t six might tumble into
drunkard's grave;" and he asked the Rev.
Mr.. White, who had been arguing in favor of
an agency, which horn of this dilemma
he would choose. Mr.. White replied
that he would let the three die for
want of it, as they might go to
heaven. An alderman said the "best men,
deacons included. couldn't stand the strain
of an agency aud it would be impossible
to make anything of it but rum shop, and
the movement was step backwards" On
the whole the opponents of the agency seem
to have the best of the argument. pro-
vided their premise, which appears to be
that the people of Augusta. even the dea-
cons, are so thirsty for alcohol that they
will lie to the agent to get it, is correct
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-13
READ THE RULES.

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The Portland daily press., 1887-04-13
0RAMASDAL SMITH, Secretary of State.

II the interstate commerce law continues
it may give sheep raising a boom in New
Hampshire. The Sawyer Wooden Mill Com
pany of Dover formerly got wool from Cali
fornia by rail at sixty-eight cents hundred
pounds; now the rate has been raised to FIVE
dollars and twenty five cents for the hun
bred mounds
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-13

as a day of public humiliation, fasting and PRAYER
And do most earnestly recommend to the PEG
pie OF this State that, in accordance with time
honured and much revered custom inaugurated
by the Christian fathers OF New England they will
observe the day in a manner BETTING the sacred
labor on that day and devote to attendance upon
public worship and private meditation in theil
h"nes. In humiliation acknowledging our de-
er, let us ask that we may receive continuance
Of His loving favors.
Given at the Council Chamber at Augusta, this
thirtieth day of March, in the year Of onr Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven
and Of the independence Of the United States Of
America the one hundred ond eleventh
JOSEPH II. BODWELL.
By the Governor.
ORAMASDAL SMITH, Secretary of State.
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-13

In Portsmouth there is no trouble about
the site for soldiers monument, but con-
siderable about the means with which to
build. Mayor Eldridge and his family have
given valuable lot of land for the site, on
which the monument may be placed as soon
as seventeen hundred dollars shall be added
to the fund. To raise this amount the Grand
Army men and other public spirited citizens
are now deyoting themselves.
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-13
BLACK DRESS GOODS.

We have the most extensive line
of Black Goods ever shown i'm this
market, containing all the Fine
Fg bricS and Novelties of the sea-
SON. Oar Silk Warp Henrietta and
Ciarritt Cloths, Convent Cloths,
Nuns Veiiings, and Speciaifies In
Mourning Goods, are worthy of
careful notice.
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-13
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. APRIL 10.

va % ant READ siipDymous letters ana colnmIi-
,t.,siaas no nanie aud address OF the writer
nrr ~ all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for
pnb cation iut as q guarantee OF good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-13

The Philadelphia Press contains a long Sc
ries of interviews with manufacturers of
Pennsylvania on the effect of the Interstate
commerce bill upon their business With
hardly an exception they pronounce it bad,
In great many cases ruinous. The rear
rangemeBt of railroad rates has so increased
the expenses of some of these industries that
il will be impossible to carry them on except
at loss. The same sentiment is expressed
by the manufacturers in the interior OF this
State. The change in the Maine Central
tariff and especially the abolition OF special
rates, Jeopardizes the existence of many Of
our most fiourishing industries, and If no
way is discovered to get round the present
difficulty and the law is continued we shall
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-13
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The Portland daily press., 1887-04-13

The story of the appearance of a vessel off
Cork loaded with dynamite is no doubt only
one feature of the Tory programme of fore
ing the coercion bill through the House.
What the friends Of coercion are hoping for
now more than anything else is an outbreak
of violence in Ireland, and if the Irish do
not furnish 1t there are plenty of Tories not
above manufacturing it themselves
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-13

John Wannamaker, the merchant prince
of Philadelphia, has decided to introduce
proft-sharing and civil service reform into
his great establishment. He employs alto
gether 1900 persons. Last week he sent a
cular to each of his employees. in which he
made the following propositions:
First-All who have been in the employ of this
house for seven years, and such Others whose
terms OF service shall hereafter reach seven years.
shalls hare In portion of the profits of the years
business which shall set aside out of my share
ment. shall divide this portion among those
employees on the seven years honor roll according
to the value Of their services to the firm, ac-
cording to their usefulness and faithfuneSS. In
making this distribution shall analyze the rec
or.s of sales made or work done for salary paid,
and, considering opportunity, effort, behavior
and growth, shall try TO do exactly right by each
one, according to my best Judgment
Second-All the sales-persons throughout the
house will have added to their present salaries,
on and after Monday next, a sum each week
graded by their sales. The sales persons in de-
partments where the transactions are the most
numerous, because in smafl amounts the addition
to the salaries will be In double ratio to those in
The other departments.
Third In the clerical, packing, invoice and va
ri0us Offices, civil service system will be strict
ly followed In promotions and advancements
The record OF eacn ole will be carefully Kept, and
govern all changes. special honor list will be
marked business ability, rapid improvement, dill
gence, economy and usefulness.
AS result Of this arrangement $780, 600
will be divided among Mr.. Wannamaker's
employees
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-13
CURRENT COM NJ EMIT,
NOT A HOLIDAY PEOPLE.
rNE.al.ao4.... TT..... !

The proposition to make Labor day holt
day has led to much newspaper comment on
appears to be overlooked that Americans do
not know how to enjoy holiday when they
have one. Capacity to enjoy holidays is a
national trait, and cannot be manufactured
off hand by legislation
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-13
ABOUT POCKET BoRoUGHs.
TRoston TRANSCRIPT.

Some of the Democratic papers, so far from
being cordial to the new recruit, give Rhode
Island a very chilling welcome, and have
something to say about "a Republican pock-
ct borough" These same papers have moth
ing to say about that Democratic pocket bor
ough, Delaware. which has about half as
MANY inhabitants as Rhode Island
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-13

An intelligent and thoughtful Canadian
sends to the Toronto Globe letter giving
the reasons why many Of the young men Of
Canada favor annexation to the United
States. These reasons, while they may not
be convincing so far as showing the desira-
bility of annexation, throw a side light upon
the political condition of the Provinces and
upon the sentiment that is growing up in
the minds Of many Liberals who are OPP
posed to the Tory party, its management of
Canadian affairs and its Difference to the
mother country. The advantages of such a
union, from purely political standpoint are
enumerated at considerable length: as a
State in the American Union each Province
would have far greater power than it now
enjoys; it would send to Washington two
Senators and Representatives in proportion
to population; no central government would
have power to gerrymander the constituent
cies Of its members of Congress, as the Ca
madam central government may now do for
members of the Dominion Parliament; it
could determine the conditions of franchise
for both local and federal purposes; the
judges of its own courts would be elected by
its people or appointed by its executive; its
people could prohibit or restrict the liquor
traffic without being kept back by the rest
of the Dominion; and finally, its people
would no longer have to bear the burden Of
subsidies to aid railroads that are TO benefit
other Provinces. To the Tories, who cher
ish'the imperial ideas of a central govern
ment that lays its hand on institutions that
ought to be local and managed by the locali-
ties interested, these changes that would
result from annexation appear far from
desirable. But to the young Liberal
party, the party that is forgetting the
ancient example Of England in its adj
mration for popular institutions, the
measure of independence Of the American
State will be an inducement either to an
nexation or TO vital change in the Canadian
constitution. These are merely political con-
siderations. Those other considerations.
close connection in relations of trade and
neighborhood, may be still stronger incen-
tives to union, or on the ether hand very po-
tent causes Of discord.
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-13
LACE and TRIMMING DEPT.

We do not hesitate to say
that we have in this dept the
most elegant line of goods
evsr shown in this market,
embracing all the new and
desirable novelties of the
season.
Special attention paid to
Materials, Trimmings, and
Fans suitable for graduating
classes.
Ladies' Collars, Cuffs and
Ruchings; corsets, Gloves,
Hosiery and Underwear in
full variety.
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-13

This year is remarkable for an excessive
mortality among the old wooden ships Of our
navy. The Shenandoah, Lackawanna, Cey-
ane and Wachusetts are condemned at the
Mare Island navy yard, in California, the
Tennessee, Powhattan and Ticonderoga at
New York. In their places we are to have
the Chicago, Boston and Atlanta-and many
other respectable cruisers, it Is to be hoped.